What is with these late physicals now for the S1 long after the S2 dropped especially with no S2 patch? Like “better late than never”, but nothing much beyond that. The 1st game is also still strangely absent.
I feel like a lot of points was taken off just because the exploration aspect is worse than the 2022 release.
As a tradeoff the battle aspect is MUCH better. TBH game is a 9/10. 8/10 at the lowest. You can’t even complain about the performance on the S2 version which is a CONSTANT complaint in Pokemon games in general. I don’t know. Feels weird seeing this game with 7/10 with objectively WORSE Pokemon games rated higher on NL. I guess that is the problem with no set standard + revolving door of reviewers.
While voice acting is nice request….it feels like a design choice at this point. Similar to how other game series is in the “lack of talking” category. Also I’m sure they been happy not having to pay VAs for decades with the sales they get despite lack of VAs. VAs at the end of the day isn’t a deal breaker for most people let’s be real.
@GoldenSunRM People actually wanted a SSJ4 Goku as a separate character for years. Like it was one of the top demanded characters from fans since they didn’t want the character stuck as a super for Kid Goku (GT).
The Daima SSJ4 Goku is probably the closest those fans are gonna get. It remains to be seen if they will still add more characters at this point. Most people thought Labcoat 21 was the last one and that remained the case for years until now.
Hopefully they do add some more eventually even if it’s a slow trickle one at a time. There is plenty they could still add especially from the Heroes movie like Purple Gohan and Orange Piccolo.
At this rate we are gonna have S2 doomers pushing the goalpost everytime there is a “ahead of S1 and Sony sales rate”.
Also hilarious that all of a sudden it’s a problem when the S2 launch isn’t super front loaded with system seller games.
People….please look at the launch of the PS5, PS4, and S1 launch roster. Guess what? It was full of ports/multi-platforms/and maybe 1-2 genuine exclusives as well for their machine.
It’s not about how many high profile games they can vomit out in week 1. It’s how they steadily release since then and Nintendo obviously has a roadmap planned to spread out their bigger releases. S2 is doing no worse then how S1 has been releasing 1st party games in terms of quantity and it’s certainly doing still better then Sony at first party releases within year 1.
People pulling predictions out of their butt dooming “oh S2 sales is gonna flatline after year 1” or some other nonsense scenario has no factual basis to even remotely support that claim considering S2 isn’t flatlining or even significantly dipping down still. Sales remain steady even when no big release happens and whenever it does the sales spike up before eventually going back to still high steady gains.
Like it’s one thing if you want to criticize S2 (there is plenty of legitimate things to criticize it for), but sales is not one of them. People are buying S2 in droves whether you like it or not.
Yeah glad I stuck with MKW. By far the better kart game experience on the Switch platforms when it was designed for it from the ground up unlike the Sonic game where it’s a cash grab afterthought port lol.
It’s not surprising. Sonic in itself isn’t that popular in Japan especially compared to Mario. Mario Kart World is also gonna make a bigger splash in general when it’s THE kart series.
People can try to poke holes all day about why “Sonic is the better kart game” (people did this too back when the Crash kart game dropped), but end of day it’s more of a fight for 2nd place. Nobody is dethroning Mario Kart anytime soon especially with World being very active still despite a vocal minority swearing off the game here.
@Aeralto Hyrule Warriors is a 2014 Wii U era game. Of course it ran at 60 on a SW1. Bayonetta 2 also ran 60 on SW1 without having to sacrifice anything if we are gonna talk about 60FPS Wii U ports. SW1 meanwhile couldn’t even have a stable AoC experience when we are not talking about a Wii U port action game. The system had an obvious limit and SW2 is no different. It’s not gonna handle higher end modern releases well without sacrifices.
Your realistic alternative choices was unstable 60 likely bouncing from 35 to 60 which is a terrible experience for a heavy action game like this or have a “stable” 60, but them heavily cutting down the mob density which defeats the point for playing a game like this which is kill a large quantity of crowd mobs quickly.
That is all irrelevant when the game in actual question is a 2025 many times higher spec/ambitious Musou type game then what Hyrule Warriors was.
If you want to play high end modern release Musou games on a S2 then a “stable” 30 while keeping the crowd density untouched is as best as you are gonna get. Otherwise if you don’t want ANY sacrifices (stable 60 AND everything else not touched) then play on a PS5 Pro or decent PC. Either that or KT decides to make a from-ground-up Musou catered toward SW2 designed for a 60 experience.
Switch 2 just like with Switch 1 is never gonna have 1:1 parity with the stronger machines on higher end 3rd party games like this.
Anyone that would have been “fine” with a drastic amount of enemy decrease just to get stable 60 completely missed the point of these games.
The main draw is literally wipe out large groups of enemies. I rather have a stable 30 that keeps the crowd density intact than unstable 60 that heavily cuts down the enemies you fight.
Like what are you getting out of the 60 at this point if you’re only fighting like 7 enemies at a time or something? This isn’t a dark souls game where it’s fine to have a small amount of enemies if there is challenge, but these are trash mobs. The only challenge they provide is their raw numbers. Decreasing that goes against the nature of the game so KT made the right choice.
I don’t think anyone rationally would blame SE for making their FF remake AAA games on game-key carts. If anything that was the intended purpose because no way anyone can say in a straight face it would be a smooth transition on an actual physical cart.
What he FAILED to understand is the OTHER SE games that is going to key carts is NOT AAA high end SE games. Sorry, but these various low-mid end SE going to game key was the real issue. You know…those same type of games that got physicals no problem on the S1 like Octopath, Triangle Strategy, etc.
That wasn’t a technology limitation issue which is understandable. That was a shameless cost cutting issue and they deserve to get spat on for that by consumers.
It’s not gonna be very impactful either way. Bowser’s reign was largely unremarkable. Neither particular good or bad. He mainly listened to Japan. The replacement isn’t gonna be any different. It’s basically the opposite of Sony in that regard.
We all know Japan has the actual power. It’s bigger news if there is Japanese senior management changes if you were hoping for “change of direction”. People like Reggie were an anomaly and even then he struggled to convince Japan most of the time.
It’s weird seeing people here acting like this is the first FE mobile game. Feh has been around as a FTP for years.
Also the people making the mobile games are NOT the same people making the Switch/Switch 2 FE games so let’s not do the “waste of time” nonsense as if the development for this game directly impacted the upcoming S2 FE game.
The audience overlap was never that thick to begin with. Not every mobile gamer touched a console FE and not every FE gamer touched a mobile game.
No idea why he is acting like he won. Anyone can say anything they want in a statement. If the court doesn’t support you then you don’t have ownership until a judgement says otherwise. A thrown out case is not something in your favor lol.
Anyway he is sus as hell acting as if Sega didn’t use the song for decades and it wasn’t until recently that he “found out”. I’m not gonna judge him for wanting to get a bag, but call it what it is. This wasn’t some original song he made on a whim. It was a song specifically for a Sonic project so of course the “who owns it” is gonna be not clear cut.
He likely signed something 20+ years ago where the song in fact isn’t 100% his ownership, but because it was 20+ years ago his memory during the contract day isn’t gonna be the best let’s be real. He is probably hoping Sega will give him something eventually just to shut him up.
Yeah as others said I’m better off sticking with World. This wasn’t the best transition into S2 and it’s disgustingly monetized. It’s a “wait for sale” tier game. Playing on S1 isn’t worth at all.
Make Revelations 3 for S2 from the ground up if you want RE to find success on a Nintendo platform. You can only do so much with old ports, BS cloud versions, and what is now looking up straight up inferior versions of the same game on other platforms.
If Capcom could do that with Monster Hunter and get success (Rise) then I don’t know why they don’t with RE.
@Reztobi Yup. This is what I feel a lot of people are missing. You can’t just make the portable hardware and throw it in the wild thinking the specs alone will carry an already occupied audience of handheld gamers.
One of the reasons why it works for Nintendo is Nintendo has an abundance of 1st party support thanks to every game not being a stupid amount of time/money project. Most of the third party support could dissapear and the Nintendo machine will still do fine.
If the new portable Sony machine is gonna get 1st parties at the rate that PS5 does then it’s gonna be a hard sell. If you think it’s gonna be fine because “oh third parties” then at that point people have more options now. Some third parties are on S2. Rest are on Steam for the portable pc machines.
@CupidStunt Yup. No idea why people inventing history. Sony forced paid upgrades too so they are not above crap lol. Hell plenty of third parties also didn’t offer free upgrades and forced you to pay again.
Trying to directly compete on Nintendo home turf (portable space) is gonna end up like a Vita level disaster at this point. Even during the PSP “peak” days it still lagged behind Nintendo portables.
It’s the equivalent of one day Nintendo trying to compete with Sony and MS as a high spec home console market again.
Well glad that shot the “physical is dead” narrative. There is a demand. Unfortunately most third parties will cut costs whenever possible and they won’t hesitate to take the cheaper option even at the consumer experience expense.
Key cards should have been reserved for giant games only to justify the use. I’m talking bigger than Cyberpunk post S2 optimization.
Before someone brings it up inevitably like usual: Your not getting smooth 60 with this game on a Steam deck. S2 is like PS4.5 and a bit better than a Steam Deck as a point of reference.
If anyone was expecting similar level of experience when AAA devs want to milk out PS5 Pro level experiences with their modern releases then you are gonna be disappointed. Nintendo never “caught up” with the specs chasing race since what? GameCube? This same old song and dance happened with the S1 so no idea why people thought it would be suddenly different especially when portable play is a focus.
As long as their actual 1st parties are great quality releases like they did with both MKW and DKB + what we can already see with Metroid Prime 4 then 1st party wise it should be fine.
@jojobar Are we gonna say the same thing for COVID year for S1 which was an anomaly in its favor when we compare that year benchmark with S2 as well? Or is this strictly the S2 downplay game?
If it looks/runs like ***** on portable mode then there was little point for this port.
@SurprisedRobinChu optimization matters. There are already plenty of examples shown on YT of games played on S2 being better than on a SD. Cyberpunk S2 vs Cyberpunk SD already kills your narrative.
SD isn’t even considered a high spec portable PC machine now. They long since been lapped by competition since Valve doesn’t want to do yearly upgrades. You don’t even need a SD if you just like the Steam Os.
Also FYI as someone that own a SD…ER definitely struggles to even maintain a 30 so no idea why you are even bragging about ER on a SD of all things as if it was a technical marvel.
@nightcrawler2000 How is this “flak”? You DO realize bundles always counted their respective software it has bundled with LONG before S2 did it with MKW right?
Are we gonna take away all those Sony recorded PS4+PS5 bundle software sales too while we are at it? Those were also recorded with Famitsu. Wow guess Spider-Man and Horizon about to get a heavy software slash then.
Woo the MKW doomers out in full force like usual. Funny how the game has been out since the S2 launched and still heavily bought and played. WOW just like with MK8D during the S1 era lol.
You can enjoy DK without having to put down MKW lol. They don’t even have much overlap with each other to begin with. One is a kart racer with a PvP multiplayer scene and the other is predominantly a 3D single player focused collector platformer.
@Wewewi People played MK8D for years and that was before it got a booster pass. Highly doubt most of those same people that enjoy Mario Kart World is gonna drop the game the same day they start playing lol. That is already proven false if you get off NL right now and boot up MKW online. You don’t “run out of things to do” when online multiplayer is a big part of the game. You know…just like with Smash Ultimate, Splatoon 3, etc.
@Ogbert NL comment section on their hot takes for a game isn’t exactly a reliable source of information. The game wouldn’t still be being bought and played in droves if it was objectively any of those things.
@VoidofLight They can say whatever they want with a label just like with PLA it’s not considered a true mainline Pokemon gen game by the playerbase.
Mainline follows a general skeleton formula since Red/Blue. PlA and this game isn’t it. This game follows up more closer to PLA (and even that people are complaining it’s not picking up the best aspects of PLA such as being so city focused) then a traditional Gen Pokemon game. If there is any building off it will be maybe some aspects of the battle system.
I feel people are putting too much stock into spin-offs and thinking it will permanently change the mainline game formula radically which hasn’t been the case so far. Legend Arceus didn’t radically change the direction of S/V besides being more open world. I don’t see this game turning the next mainline game unrecognizable for sake of “change”.
GameFreak is not gonna kill a try and true decades+ formula because a minority on the internet wants change from PvP battles to PvE exploration, but the consumers says otherwise with their wallets open at the ready.
If you actually want the next mainline games to “change for the better” then you definitely should have not bought S/V at the numbers it got. Like that ship has already sailed.
Did anyone seriously expect it too? As much as some people are still complaining about Mario Kart World…it’s legitimately a new and popular game. In b4 people downplay it again because bundles as if non bundle World still wouldn’t significantly sell better then a rerelease Mario Party, but with camera gimmicks.
There is zero reason to get this Mario Party Jamboree game over the original unless you want to use the camera stuff.
The reason they are not doing upgrades is so they force more people to buy the S2 version which isn’t a legitimate physical like the S1 version. Yeah skip. Cut corners means cut sales I guess.
These kind of peripherals don’t sell well at all with those poor attach rates versus production costs. I don’t get why they keep doing this. It didn’t work for MS and Sony when they did this gimmick either.
Dumb PR speak. I’ll just play at Steam at that point no thanks. Either do genuine physicals or don’t bother. Guess most of my S2 library is gonna be 1st parties. For reference my S1 library was roughly a 50/50 ratio between 1st and 3rd party. Sad considering I have all the Trails S1 titles physical.
Don’t think anyone remotely in their right mind expected a DK 3D platformer to beat Mario Kart. Makes me question some of the commenters here because they either grossly overrated DK or grossly underrated Mario Kart. Maybe both.
FYI Mario Odyssey didn’t beat MK8D either on S1.
FYI again there was always more noise in Japanese Twitter/X for Mario Kart World then there was for a DK game despite people in the West complaining about Mario Kart World because a few influencers hated a patch and cried about going back to MK8D.
People immediately downplaying Mario Kart because it was in a bundle are fooling themselves. If Mario Kart didn’t get a bundle it would still sell more than a DK platformer. The upcoming Pokemon game is also getting a bundle. Are you suggesting DK would have also outsold that Pokemon game if it didn’t get a bundle too? See how silly that line of reasoning is?
Game itself was mid at best even if you put aside the usual Ubislop controversies this game deserved. Don’t think the S2 port just like for Outlaws is gonna help them as much as they think. Ghosts and Ronin were both better games by far if you wanted that Japanese aesthetic gameplay gimmick.
Ah classic Ubisoft style “it’s not our fault it was X, Y, and Z”. Yes let’s also ignore how the Jedi Last Order/Survivor did notably better. Yes it’s all the brand’s fault. One of the most popular IP in the world mind you even if Disney keeps botching the brand lately.
FYI for context there are PLENTY of videos back when Outlaws first launched on YouTube. It was a buggy disaster (as you would expect from an Ubisoft launch since they don’t QA until after the launch), the stealth aspects was hilariously bad that people were making meme videos about it, the combat had no real impact to the point where the melee CQC stuff was a joke, and older games like RDR2 had a way more detailed open world. People were even meming that even ancient games like SKYRIM in comparison videos had better environmental details in some aspects then outlaws.
Game was a rushed product cash grab trying to check in on a trend that long since moved on and you were just left with a disappointing open world Ubislop game with a SW can of pain. It’s not that complicated.
Sorry, but a S2 port won’t save a very disappointing RDR clone attempt that is Outlaws. I rather play RDR2 on S2 which is an older game yet somehow did the open world outlaw gimmick significantly better.
There is no need to over analyze this. Mario has always been more popular than DK. I expect DK to have decent legs regardless. Also this is just UK aka PlayStation land.
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Re: Wolfenstein II Gets A New Physical Edition For Switch Full Of Tat
What is with these late physicals now for the S1 long after the S2 dropped especially with no S2 patch? Like “better late than never”, but nothing much beyond that. The 1st game is also still strangely absent.
Re: Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Receives A Small Update (Version 1.4.1)
They really need to go back and do more free S2 upgrades. So many S1 games still stuck at 30 on a S2 because of this.
Re: Review: Pokémon Legends: Z-A - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - Stellar Battles, But A Step Down From Arceus
I feel like a lot of points was taken off just because the exploration aspect is worse than the 2022 release.
As a tradeoff the battle aspect is MUCH better. TBH game is a 9/10. 8/10 at the lowest. You can’t even complain about the performance on the S2 version which is a CONSTANT complaint in Pokemon games in general. I don’t know. Feels weird seeing this game with 7/10 with objectively WORSE Pokemon games rated higher on NL. I guess that is the problem with no set standard + revolving door of reviewers.
While voice acting is nice request….it feels like a design choice at this point. Similar to how other game series is in the “lack of talking” category. Also I’m sure they been happy not having to pay VAs for decades with the sales they get despite lack of VAs. VAs at the end of the day isn’t a deal breaker for most people let’s be real.
Re: Surprise! Dragon Ball FighterZ Is Adding Another Fighter To The Roster In 2026
@Bass_X0 That is one way to go about it if Bamco wants DBFZ to take the Xenoverse 2 route.
Re: Surprise! Dragon Ball FighterZ Is Adding Another Fighter To The Roster In 2026
@GoldenSunRM People actually wanted a SSJ4 Goku as a separate character for years. Like it was one of the top demanded characters from fans since they didn’t want the character stuck as a super for Kid Goku (GT).
The Daima SSJ4 Goku is probably the closest those fans are gonna get. It remains to be seen if they will still add more characters at this point. Most people thought Labcoat 21 was the last one and that remained the case for years until now.
Hopefully they do add some more eventually even if it’s a slow trickle one at a time. There is plenty they could still add especially from the Heroes movie like Purple Gohan and Orange Piccolo.
Re: Switch 2 Reportedly Sold 2.4 Million Units In First Three Months On The Market (US)
At this rate we are gonna have S2 doomers pushing the goalpost everytime there is a “ahead of S1 and Sony sales rate”.
Also hilarious that all of a sudden it’s a problem when the S2 launch isn’t super front loaded with system seller games.
People….please look at the launch of the PS5, PS4, and S1 launch roster. Guess what? It was full of ports/multi-platforms/and maybe 1-2 genuine exclusives as well for their machine.
It’s not about how many high profile games they can vomit out in week 1. It’s how they steadily release since then and Nintendo obviously has a roadmap planned to spread out their bigger releases. S2 is doing no worse then how S1 has been releasing 1st party games in terms of quantity and it’s certainly doing still better then Sony at first party releases within year 1.
People pulling predictions out of their butt dooming “oh S2 sales is gonna flatline after year 1” or some other nonsense scenario has no factual basis to even remotely support that claim considering S2 isn’t flatlining or even significantly dipping down still. Sales remain steady even when no big release happens and whenever it does the sales spike up before eventually going back to still high steady gains.
Like it’s one thing if you want to criticize S2 (there is plenty of legitimate things to criticize it for), but sales is not one of them. People are buying S2 in droves whether you like it or not.
Re: Review: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (Switch) - Cracking Karting, But Struggles To Keep Up On Switch
Yeah glad I stuck with MKW. By far the better kart game experience on the Switch platforms when it was designed for it from the ground up unlike the Sonic game where it’s a cash grab afterthought port lol.
Re: Review: Disgaea 7 Complete (Switch 2) - A Definitive Return For This Tactical RPG Giant
Key card for what S1 had as a physical while overpricing the game for the minimal stuff they added? lol glad this release flopped. 2/10 release.
Re: Japanese Charts: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Can't Compete With Mario Kart World
It’s not surprising. Sonic in itself isn’t that popular in Japan especially compared to Mario. Mario Kart World is also gonna make a bigger splash in general when it’s THE kart series.
People can try to poke holes all day about why “Sonic is the better kart game” (people did this too back when the Crash kart game dropped), but end of day it’s more of a fight for 2nd place. Nobody is dethroning Mario Kart anytime soon especially with World being very active still despite a vocal minority swearing off the game here.
Re: Dynasty Warriors: Origins Will Run At A "Fixed" 30fps On Switch 2
@Aeralto Hyrule Warriors is a 2014 Wii U era game. Of course it ran at 60 on a SW1. Bayonetta 2 also ran 60 on SW1 without having to sacrifice anything if we are gonna talk about 60FPS Wii U ports. SW1 meanwhile couldn’t even have a stable AoC experience when we are not talking about a Wii U port action game. The system had an obvious limit and SW2 is no different. It’s not gonna handle higher end modern releases well without sacrifices.
Your realistic alternative choices was unstable 60 likely bouncing from 35 to 60 which is a terrible experience for a heavy action game like this or have a “stable” 60, but them heavily cutting down the mob density which defeats the point for playing a game like this which is kill a large quantity of crowd mobs quickly.
That is all irrelevant when the game in actual question is a 2025 many times higher spec/ambitious Musou type game then what Hyrule Warriors was.
If you want to play high end modern release Musou games on a S2 then a “stable” 30 while keeping the crowd density untouched is as best as you are gonna get. Otherwise if you don’t want ANY sacrifices (stable 60 AND everything else not touched) then play on a PS5 Pro or decent PC. Either that or KT decides to make a from-ground-up Musou catered toward SW2 designed for a 60 experience.
Switch 2 just like with Switch 1 is never gonna have 1:1 parity with the stronger machines on higher end 3rd party games like this.
Re: Dynasty Warriors: Origins Will Run At A "Fixed" 30fps On Switch 2
Anyone that would have been “fine” with a drastic amount of enemy decrease just to get stable 60 completely missed the point of these games.
The main draw is literally wipe out large groups of enemies. I rather have a stable 30 that keeps the crowd density intact than unstable 60 that heavily cuts down the enemies you fight.
Like what are you getting out of the 60 at this point if you’re only fighting like 7 enemies at a time or something? This isn’t a dark souls game where it’s fine to have a small amount of enemies if there is challenge, but these are trash mobs. The only challenge they provide is their raw numbers. Decreasing that goes against the nature of the game so KT made the right choice.
Re: Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Director Highlights The Speed Problem With Switch 2 Game Cards
I don’t think anyone rationally would blame SE for making their FF remake AAA games on game-key carts. If anything that was the intended purpose because no way anyone can say in a straight face it would be a smooth transition on an actual physical cart.
What he FAILED to understand is the OTHER SE games that is going to key carts is NOT AAA high end SE games. Sorry, but these various low-mid end SE going to game key was the real issue. You know…those same type of games that got physicals no problem on the S1 like Octopath, Triangle Strategy, etc.
That wasn’t a technology limitation issue which is understandable. That was a shameless cost cutting issue and they deserve to get spat on for that by consumers.
Re: Feature: Who Is Devon Pritchard? - Meet The Next NOA President Stepping Into Bowser's Boots
It’s not gonna be very impactful either way. Bowser’s reign was largely unremarkable. Neither particular good or bad. He mainly listened to Japan. The replacement isn’t gonna be any different. It’s basically the opposite of Sony in that regard.
We all know Japan has the actual power. It’s bigger news if there is Japanese senior management changes if you were hoping for “change of direction”. People like Reggie were an anomaly and even then he struggled to convince Japan most of the time.
Re: Surprise! A New "Free-To-Start" Fire Emblem Game Is Out On Mobile Devices Today
It’s weird seeing people here acting like this is the first FE mobile game. Feh has been around as a FTP for years.
Also the people making the mobile games are NOT the same people making the Switch/Switch 2 FE games so let’s not do the “waste of time” nonsense as if the development for this game directly impacted the upcoming S2 FE game.
The audience overlap was never that thick to begin with. Not every mobile gamer touched a console FE and not every FE gamer touched a mobile game.
Re: Sonic Adventure 2 'Live And Learn' Lawsuit Dismissed, Crush 40 Musician Issues Statement
No idea why he is acting like he won. Anyone can say anything they want in a statement. If the court doesn’t support you then you don’t have ownership until a judgement says otherwise. A thrown out case is not something in your favor lol.
Anyway he is sus as hell acting as if Sega didn’t use the song for decades and it wasn’t until recently that he “found out”. I’m not gonna judge him for wanting to get a bag, but call it what it is. This wasn’t some original song he made on a whim. It was a song specifically for a Sonic project so of course the “who owns it” is gonna be not clear cut.
He likely signed something 20+ years ago where the song in fact isn’t 100% his ownership, but because it was 20+ years ago his memory during the contract day isn’t gonna be the best let’s be real. He is probably hoping Sega will give him something eventually just to shut him up.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Yeah as others said I’m better off sticking with World. This wasn’t the best transition into S2 and it’s disgustingly monetized. It’s a “wait for sale” tier game. Playing on S1 isn’t worth at all.
Re: No Switch 2 "Upgrade Path" For Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined Planned
FYI this kind of crap isn’t Nintendo’s fault. That is all on said third parties. Other third parties did offer upgrades.
Re: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Finally Gets A Release Date, Open World Confirmed
Still excited for it. I don’t automatically dismiss just because something has open world. Would have missed out BoTW/Tears if that was the case.
Re: Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 Bundle Confirmed For Switch, Launching October
Good news if you already have All Stars then you can just get Galaxy 2 separate
Re: Rumour: Resident Evil Requiem Could Be Heading To The Switch 2
Make Revelations 3 for S2 from the ground up if you want RE to find success on a Nintendo platform. You can only do so much with old ports, BS cloud versions, and what is now looking up straight up inferior versions of the same game on other platforms.
If Capcom could do that with Monster Hunter and get success (Rise) then I don’t know why they don’t with RE.
Re: The Force Isn't Strong With Star Wars Outlaws On Switch 2, Initial Impressions Suggest
lol this was the safest skip ever.
Re: Nintendo Music Adds Fire Emblem: Awakening Soundtrack In New Update
2nd favorite FE soundtrack after Three Houses. Hopefully this means Three Houses soundtrack can drop soon.
Would love for a remake of Awakening/Fates despite some in the FE community hating those games because “it’s everything that went wrong with FE”.
Re: Mini Review: The Exit 8 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - Unnerving Horror Loop Is Worth The Budget Price
Tbh it deserves kudos for being pretty original + be a good horror concept that it actually got greenlit for a horror film.
Re: Rumour: Sony Is Gunning For The Switch 2 With A Handheld, Dockable PS6
@Reztobi Yup. This is what I feel a lot of people are missing. You can’t just make the portable hardware and throw it in the wild thinking the specs alone will carry an already occupied audience of handheld gamers.
One of the reasons why it works for Nintendo is Nintendo has an abundance of 1st party support thanks to every game not being a stupid amount of time/money project. Most of the third party support could dissapear and the Nintendo machine will still do fine.
If the new portable Sony machine is gonna get 1st parties at the rate that PS5 does then it’s gonna be a hard sell. If you think it’s gonna be fine because “oh third parties” then at that point people have more options now. Some third parties are on S2. Rest are on Steam for the portable pc machines.
Re: Another Switch Game Just Got A Free Switch 2 Upgrade - Includes Higher Frame Rate, Enhanced Resolution And More
@CupidStunt Yup. No idea why people inventing history. Sony forced paid upgrades too so they are not above crap lol. Hell plenty of third parties also didn’t offer free upgrades and forced you to pay again.
Re: Another Switch Game Just Got A Free Switch 2 Upgrade - Includes Higher Frame Rate, Enhanced Resolution And More
@coolioam Yeah I was about to say Nintendo did several S2 versions and is still adding more.
If anything it’s the 3rd parties that is skipping out on S2 versions. Either because they lack the dev kits or don’t bother period.
Re: Rumour: Sony Is Gunning For The Switch 2 With A Handheld, Dockable PS6
This isn’t the right move for Sony imo.
Trying to directly compete on Nintendo home turf (portable space) is gonna end up like a Vita level disaster at this point. Even during the PSP “peak” days it still lagged behind Nintendo portables.
It’s the equivalent of one day Nintendo trying to compete with Sony and MS as a high spec home console market again.
Re: CD Projekt Reveals 75% Of Cyberpunk 2077 Switch 2 Sales Were Physical In Opening Month
Well glad that shot the “physical is dead” narrative. There is a demand. Unfortunately most third parties will cut costs whenever possible and they won’t hesitate to take the cheaper option even at the consumer experience expense.
Key cards should have been reserved for giant games only to justify the use. I’m talking bigger than Cyberpunk post S2 optimization.
Re: Square Enix Confirms Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Runs At A "Stable" 30fps On Switch 2
Before someone brings it up inevitably like usual: Your not getting smooth 60 with this game on a Steam deck. S2 is like PS4.5 and a bit better than a Steam Deck as a point of reference.
If anyone was expecting similar level of experience when AAA devs want to milk out PS5 Pro level experiences with their modern releases then you are gonna be disappointed. Nintendo never “caught up” with the specs chasing race since what? GameCube? This same old song and dance happened with the S1 so no idea why people thought it would be suddenly different especially when portable play is a focus.
As long as their actual 1st parties are great quality releases like they did with both MKW and DKB + what we can already see with Metroid Prime 4 then 1st party wise it should be fine.
Re: Donkey Kong Bananza Is Selling Like Bananas On Switch 2 (US)
Good. It’s a fun game and glad US market ate it up as expected.
Re: Switch 2 Sales In The US Are Outpacing The Original Console By 75%
@jojobar Are we gonna say the same thing for COVID year for S1 which was an anomaly in its favor when we compare that year benchmark with S2 as well? Or is this strictly the S2 downplay game?
Re: First Footage Of Elden Ring Running On Switch 2 Appears Online
If it looks/runs like ***** on portable mode then there was little point for this port.
@SurprisedRobinChu optimization matters. There are already plenty of examples shown on YT of games played on S2 being better than on a SD. Cyberpunk S2 vs Cyberpunk SD already kills your narrative.
SD isn’t even considered a high spec portable PC machine now. They long since been lapped by competition since Valve doesn’t want to do yearly upgrades. You don’t even need a SD if you just like the Steam Os.
Also FYI as someone that own a SD…ER definitely struggles to even maintain a 30 so no idea why you are even bragging about ER on a SD of all things as if it was a technical marvel.
Re: Mario Kart World Wins "Best Nintendo Switch 2 Game" Of Gamescom 2025
@nightcrawler2000 How is this “flak”? You DO realize bundles always counted their respective software it has bundled with LONG before S2 did it with MKW right?
Are we gonna take away all those Sony recorded PS4+PS5 bundle software sales too while we are at it? Those were also recorded with Famitsu. Wow guess Spider-Man and Horizon about to get a heavy software slash then.
Re: Mario Kart World Wins "Best Nintendo Switch 2 Game" Of Gamescom 2025
Woo the MKW doomers out in full force like usual. Funny how the game has been out since the S2 launched and still heavily bought and played. WOW just like with MK8D during the S1 era lol.
You can enjoy DK without having to put down MKW lol. They don’t even have much overlap with each other to begin with. One is a kart racer with a PvP multiplayer scene and the other is predominantly a 3D single player focused collector platformer.
@Wewewi People played MK8D for years and that was before it got a booster pass. Highly doubt most of those same people that enjoy Mario Kart World is gonna drop the game the same day they start playing lol. That is already proven false if you get off NL right now and boot up MKW online. You don’t “run out of things to do” when online multiplayer is a big part of the game. You know…just like with Smash Ultimate, Splatoon 3, etc.
Re: Japanese Charts: Mario Kart World Gets Back To Demolishing The Competition
@Ogbert NL comment section on their hot takes for a game isn’t exactly a reliable source of information. The game wouldn’t still be being bought and played in droves if it was objectively any of those things.
Re: Tales Of Xillia Remastered Coming This October, Confirmed 30fps For Switch
If the 30 FPS is capped then it doesn’t matter that you are playing this on a S2.
Re: Round Up: The First "Hands On" Impressions Of The Pokémon Legends: Z-A Demo Are In
@VoidofLight They can say whatever they want with a label just like with PLA it’s not considered a true mainline Pokemon gen game by the playerbase.
Mainline follows a general skeleton formula since Red/Blue. PlA and this game isn’t it. This game follows up more closer to PLA (and even that people are complaining it’s not picking up the best aspects of PLA such as being so city focused) then a traditional Gen Pokemon game. If there is any building off it will be maybe some aspects of the battle system.
Re: Round Up: The First "Hands On" Impressions Of The Pokémon Legends: Z-A Demo Are In
I feel people are putting too much stock into spin-offs and thinking it will permanently change the mainline game formula radically which hasn’t been the case so far. Legend Arceus didn’t radically change the direction of S/V besides being more open world. I don’t see this game turning the next mainline game unrecognizable for sake of “change”.
GameFreak is not gonna kill a try and true decades+ formula because a minority on the internet wants change from PvP battles to PvE exploration, but the consumers says otherwise with their wallets open at the ready.
If you actually want the next mainline games to “change for the better” then you definitely should have not bought S/V at the numbers it got. Like that ship has already sailed.
Re: Random: Oh Jeez, Now Palworld Has Its Own Rip-Off On The Switch eShop
Karma tbh. Palworld devs have little reason to complain.
Re: Japanese Charts: Mario Party Rolls A Fine Switch 2 Debut, But Can't Move To The Top Spot
Did anyone seriously expect it too? As much as some people are still complaining about Mario Kart World…it’s legitimately a new and popular game. In b4 people downplay it again because bundles as if non bundle World still wouldn’t significantly sell better then a rerelease Mario Party, but with camera gimmicks.
There is zero reason to get this Mario Party Jamboree game over the original unless you want to use the camera stuff.
Re: Opinion: Can We Stop Comparing Donkey Kong Bananza's Tactile Thrills To Odyssey Now?
Both games are so different from each other besides surface layer similarities like “they are 3D platformer” and “you collect stuff”.
Re: Switch 2 Has Sold "More Than 6 Million" Units, And Almost As Many Copies Of Mario Kart World
Wonder how long the “S2 is flop” people gonna still try to gaslight people.
Re: Octopath 0 Is A Game-Key Card On Switch 2, And Square Enix Has "No Plans" For A Switch 1 Upgrade Option
The reason they are not doing upgrades is so they force more people to buy the S2 version which isn’t a legitimate physical like the S1 version. Yeah skip. Cut corners means cut sales I guess.
Re: Random: Don't Worry Folks, Nintendo Says Mario And Peach Are Just "Good Friends"
Obi-Wan also said Ahsoka was a good friend too btw
Re: Nintendo's Official Camera "Attach Rate" With Switch 2 Revealed For US
These kind of peripherals don’t sell well at all with those poor attach rates versus production costs. I don’t get why they keep doing this. It didn’t work for MS and Sony when they did this gimmick either.
Re: NIS America: Trails Beyond The Horizon Switch 2 Game-Key Card Release Is "Most Beneficial Option" For Fans
Dumb PR speak. I’ll just play at Steam at that point no thanks. Either do genuine physicals or don’t bother. Guess most of my S2 library is gonna be 1st parties. For reference my S1 library was roughly a 50/50 ratio between 1st and 3rd party. Sad considering I have all the Trails S1 titles physical.
Re: Japanese Charts: Donkey Kong Bananza Sells A Bunch, But Can't Beat Mario Kart
Don’t think anyone remotely in their right mind expected a DK 3D platformer to beat Mario Kart. Makes me question some of the commenters here because they either grossly overrated DK or grossly underrated Mario Kart. Maybe both.
FYI Mario Odyssey didn’t beat MK8D either on S1.
FYI again there was always more noise in Japanese Twitter/X for Mario Kart World then there was for a DK game despite people in the West complaining about Mario Kart World because a few influencers hated a patch and cried about going back to MK8D.
People immediately downplaying Mario Kart because it was in a bundle are fooling themselves. If Mario Kart didn’t get a bundle it would still sell more than a DK platformer. The upcoming Pokemon game is also getting a bundle. Are you suggesting DK would have also outsold that Pokemon game if it didn’t get a bundle too? See how silly that line of reasoning is?
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Switch 2 Rating Spotted Online
Game itself was mid at best even if you put aside the usual Ubislop controversies this game deserved. Don’t think the S2 port just like for Outlaws is gonna help them as much as they think. Ghosts and Ronin were both better games by far if you wanted that Japanese aesthetic gameplay gimmick.
Re: Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot Is Hopeful That Upcoming Switch 2 Port Can Revive Star Wars Outlaws
Ah classic Ubisoft style “it’s not our fault it was X, Y, and Z”. Yes let’s also ignore how the Jedi Last Order/Survivor did notably better. Yes it’s all the brand’s fault. One of the most popular IP in the world mind you even if Disney keeps botching the brand lately.
FYI for context there are PLENTY of videos back when Outlaws first launched on YouTube. It was a buggy disaster (as you would expect from an Ubisoft launch since they don’t QA until after the launch), the stealth aspects was hilariously bad that people were making meme videos about it, the combat had no real impact to the point where the melee CQC stuff was a joke, and older games like RDR2 had a way more detailed open world. People were even meming that even ancient games like SKYRIM in comparison videos had better environmental details in some aspects then outlaws.
Game was a rushed product cash grab trying to check in on a trend that long since moved on and you were just left with a disappointing open world Ubislop game with a SW can of pain. It’s not that complicated.
Sorry, but a S2 port won’t save a very disappointing RDR clone attempt that is Outlaws. I rather play RDR2 on S2 which is an older game yet somehow did the open world outlaw gimmick significantly better.
Re: UK Charts: Donkey Kong Bananza Is A Hit, But Sells Less Than Half Of Super Mario Odyssey
There is no need to over analyze this. Mario has always been more popular than DK. I expect DK to have decent legs regardless. Also this is just UK aka PlayStation land.